Recaps

A group of visitors rode the roller coaster through the amusement park’s first stage, where the bald man was crushed by a rule after striking a chainsaw-wielding doll. Shen Hao gained Fear Points from the deaths and the survivors’ fright, while the group got off without a guide and prepared to rely on themselves.

• The bald man led the visitors onto the roller coaster, and they forced smiles while watching gruesome scenes of people dying.
• A chainsaw-wielding girl appeared on the track, and the bald man used his demon ability to knock her away, only to discover she was a doll.
• The park announced that a visitor had broken a rule, and the bald man was crushed to pieces despite trying to resist.
• The survivors realized the bald man had likely violated a rule by damaging the doll, while Shen Hao gained 850 Fear Points from their fear.
• After leaving the ride, the visitors discussed the dead man’s connection to the Blood Moon Guild and agreed they would have to clear the next stages without a guide.

The five travelers chose the middle road and reached an artificial lake, where they rowed across while water ghosts dragged their boats. Sun Jingyu and Zhao Guodong drove the ghosts away, but a mass of unmanned boats drifted toward them, threatening the no-collision rule.

• At a crossroads, Sun Jingyu reasoned that two opposing forces had posted truthful but incomplete warnings, and the group took the middle road.
• The five reached an artificial lake and split among three boats, following the visitor notice that required two people per boat and a fifteen-minute ride.
• Water ghosts gathered beneath the boats and dragged them backward as the group tried to row to shore.
• Sun Jingyu and Zhao Guodong used their Defense Type abilities to scatter the water ghosts, allowing the group to row onward.
• A group of unmanned boats drifted toward them, making it difficult to obey the rule against colliding with other boats.

During the rowing stage, Chen Yan fell into the lake after her boat broke apart and was killed by the amusement park’s rules. The four survivors reached the final stretch, but Water Ghosts began rowing abandoned boats after them, and Wang Ruoxi announced she had an idea.

• Sun Jingyu told everyone to switch boats to avoid collisions, but Chen Yan’s new boat broke apart and she fell into the water.
• Wang Ruoxi refused to pull Chen Yan from the lake after the rules declared her violations, and Chen Yan was crushed into blood by the park’s power.
• The Water Ghosts swarmed the boats, and Sun Jingyu and Zhao Guodong drove them away while the survivors rowed toward the finish.
• The Water Ghosts climbed into the abandoned boats and rowed after the group, closing in as the survivors neared the finish line.
• Wang Ruoxi announced that she had an idea.

Wang Ruoxi used a one-use black flag to save her group from the pursuing boats, and Shen Hao gained more Fear Points by killing players. The group entered a maze where the paths seemed to shift, and they ended up face-to-face with a smiling little girl.

• Wang Ruoxi destroyed the pursuing boats with a black flag that shielded her group from the amusement park's rules.
• Shen Hao watched the survivors leave and concluded that killing players increased his power and could complete the hidden mission.
• Liu Shuai, Sun Jingyu, Zhao Guodong, and Wang Ruoxi chose the middle path after debating which route to take.
• The group repeatedly followed forks and retraced their steps, but the changing maze prevented them from finding the way out.
• The trapped group encountered a smiling girl who appeared to be seven or eight years old.

A doll girl led Liu Shuai, Wang Ruoxi, Sun Jingyu, and Zhao Guodong out of the maze and to the amusement park’s haunted house. They entered the attraction and read its rules, with Sun Jingyu warning them to obey them no matter what happened.

• The group followed the doll girl through the maze, hoping she would lead them somewhere useful.
• After more than ten minutes, the doll girl disappeared and the group emerged from the maze.
• The group followed the only path to a haunted house and realized the doll girl had led them to another dangerous attraction.
• They read the haunted house’s visitor rules, which required them to scream, keep their eyes open, and finish the tour through the back door.
• Liu Shuai opened the door and the group entered, then Sun Jingyu warned them not to break any rules, even if they believed they were about to die.

Sun Jingyu, Wang Ruoxi, Zhao Guodong, and Liu Shuai navigated a haunted house where wax figures moved whenever no one watched them. After escaping into a red-lit room filled with mist, they found the floor moving beneath them and were forced along with it.

• Wang Ruoxi sensed danger from the wax figures, and Zhao Guodong noticed one had shifted position.
• The group tested the figures and discovered they moved whenever they were out of sight.
• Sun Jingyu organized the group to watch the figures while backing toward the door, allowing them to reach the next room safely.
• The four entered a room filled with red light and thickening mist, then heard the wax figures pounding on the door behind them.
• As the group moved through the mist, the floor suddenly shifted in different directions and carried them along.

After the group was separated in a maze, Wang Ruoxi encountered the doll girl and tried to escape when it attacked her. She accidentally kicked the doll apart, violated the amusement park’s rules, and was erased as a strange power entered her body.

• The shifting ground separated Wang Ruoxi from her companions, leaving her alone in a blood-red mist and maze.
• Wang Ruoxi met the doll girl, who pursued her with a spiked club and then a chainsaw.
• Cornered in a dead end, Wang Ruoxi kicked the chainsaw aside and sent the doll girl stumbling into the wall, where it shattered.
• Wang Ruoxi realized she had violated the amusement park’s taboo, and a voice announced that erasure was imminent.
• Wang Ruoxi screamed in terror as a power entered her body and her will collapsed.

Liu Shuai planned to sacrifice his companions to advance the Blood Moon Guild’s hidden quest, but he discovered they were controlled impostors and fled after they stabbed him. He accidentally broke the Puppet Girl while escaping, leaving him terrified of the amusement park’s punishment.

• Liu Shuai decided to hunt down Wang Ruoxi, Zhao Guodong, and Sun Jingyu as sacrifices for the Blood Moon Goddess’s descent.
• Liu Shuai found Wang Ruoxi and stabbed her from behind, but Zhao Guodong and Sun Jingyu stabbed him in turn.
• Liu Shuai realized the three companions were fakes controlled by something, drank a healing potion, and fled while bleeding.
• The Puppet Girl blocked Liu Shuai’s path and swung her hammer at him.
• Liu Shuai grabbed the hammer and pulled the Puppet Girl down, shattering her body into pieces.
• Liu Shuai feared the amusement park would punish him for damaging its property and protested that the Puppet Girl had framed him.

Shen Hao killed the last player, Liu Shuai, and chose to pursue the hidden mission to eliminate the invader and take full control of the amusement park. Sun Jingyu resurrected with the Soul-Returning Incense and continued his mission to keep a dangerous object from evil organizations.

• Liu Shuai shouted in defiance, broke the no-loud-noises rule, and was crushed to death, giving Shen Hao 600 Fear Points.
• Shen Hao praised Xiaobai for helping kill five players, checked his level and attributes, and chose to continue the hidden mission.
• The system updated Shen Hao’s objective to kill the invader and reclaim full control of the amusement park.
• Shen Hao received notice that a player had resurrected and went to pursue the hidden mission.
• Sun Jingyu used the Soul-Returning Incense to resurrect at a chosen point in the instance, intending to secure the dangerous object for the Player Alliance Guild.

Sun Jingyu entered the amusement park restaurant to find its hidden boss and faced a choice between drinking a bowl of supposed rabbit blood or defying the chef. After he spilled the blood, the restaurant’s diners and staff appeared, revealing that the diners were monsters eating their own kind, and Sun Jingyu spotted the chef.

• Sun Jingyu entered the restaurant, read its rules, and realized he had to eat a dish before he could meet the chef.
• Sun Jingyu ordered frozen rabbit blood, then found warnings carved into the table that the restaurant did not sell rabbit blood and questioned whether eating human food would make him no longer human.
• When a bowl of scarlet liquid arrived, Sun Jingyu refused to drink it and flung it onto the floor.
• The restaurant grew cold as blurry figures appeared and became diners and staff, revealing customers who ravenously ate food made from their own kind.
• Sun Jingyu saw the restaurant’s chef, the hidden boss.

Sun Jingyu fought and killed the One-Eyed Chef to complete a hidden quest and obtained the Demon Eye. As he prepared to leave the dungeon, he discovered the terrifying doll girl watching him.

• The One-Eyed Chef attacked Sun Jingyu after he refused the chef’s food, while Sun Jingyu used mental energy and flying swords to hold off the chef and the restaurant’s furious staff and diners.
• Sun Jingyu pierced the One-Eyed Chef’s chest, but the chef transformed his arms into tentacles and bound him.
• Sun Jingyu made a flying sword explode, freeing himself and cutting off the chef’s tentacles, then killed the One-Eyed Chef with another explosive sword strike.
• Sun Jingyu gouged out the Demon Eye and received a system notification telling him to leave the dungeon.
• Sun Jingyu noticed the doll girl watching him and realized he might not be able to escape her.

Sun Jingyu reached the amusement park exit but found its locked gates blocked his escape. He tricked the doll girl into trading the Demon Eye for the key, then used his ability to seize both items and rushed to unlock the gates.

• Sun Jingyu reached the amusement park gates and realized he needed a key to escape.
• The doll girl approached with the key and demanded the Demon Eye in exchange.
• Sun Jingyu agreed to trade the Demon Eye for the key and arranged for them to place their items on the ground.
• Sun Jingyu used his control ability to pull both the Demon Eye and the key into his hands.
• Sun Jingyu rushed toward the gates with the key to unlock them.

Shen Hao killed Sun Jingyu after the broken key left him trapped in the amusement park, then returned from the instance with the Demon Eye and a chance to earn money by writing a guide. Despite Xia Bing’s warning about Blood Banquet, Shen Hao immediately queued for another instance and stayed up to write the guide.

• Sun Jingyu’s key snapped in the gate, and the amusement park system erased him as the doll girl approached.
• Shen Hao revealed himself after Sun Jingyu died, gained 600 Fear Points, and collected the Demon Eye.
• Shen Hao returned home and found Xia Bing waiting; she let him keep the Substitute Doll and offered him up to 5 million yuan for a successful instance guide.
• Xia Bing warned Shen Hao to avoid more instances because Blood Banquet might target him, but he immediately queued for another one.
• Shen Hao checked his character panel, saw that he was 300 experience points short of level 10, and began writing the guide late into the night.

After the Alliance Guild approved Shen Hao’s Water Sky Paradise guide, Xia Bing warned him that Blood Banquet had lured away the Guild’s main forces and was coming for him. Shen Hao discovered that he and several students were trapped in a strange version of the school, unable to leave through the gates.

• Shen Hao learned that his guide had received the Alliance Guild’s highest rating and would be prioritized for recommendations.
• Xia Bing warned Shen Hao that Blood Banquet had deceived the Guild’s informant and that Jiang Zhennan was coming for him while the main forces were away.
• Shen Hao learned that Xia Bing and the others would need two hours to return, so he decided to leave school and evade Blood Banquet on his own.
• Shen Hao noticed that the school grounds were strangely empty and that the starry sky had disappeared, realizing he had already been targeted.
• A male student and a female student found that they could not leave through the school gate, and the trapped students panicked as Shen Hao realized Blood Banquet had involved them too.

Shen Hao deliberately frightened a group of students trapped with him, farming Fear Points while pretending they faced a cruel organization of Ability Users. After one student rallied the others to resist, a chainsaw-wielding little girl appeared and sent everyone fleeing.

• A boy with glasses guessed they had entered a beginner Thriller Paradise instance, but Shen Hao convinced the students that an evil organization had trapped them instead.
• Shen Hao described the organization’s cruelty and used the students’ fear to gain Fear Points from the game system.
• A girl tried to escape through the school gates but was teleported back, and Shen Hao frightened her further for more Fear Points.
• Shen Hao deepened the group’s despair until a boy declared that he would not accept his fate and briefly inspired the others.
• A little girl in a white dress appeared holding a buzzing chainsaw, and the students screamed and scattered.

After reaching level 10, Shen Hao gained the Demon Bloodline talent and learned that Fear Points could be converted into demon power. As the school transformed into a blood-red ritual ground, Jiang Zhennan sacrificed Shen Hao to the Bloodied Sovereign, and the castle gates opened.

• Shen Hao reached level 10, gained the Demon Bloodline talent, and saw his Constitution rise to 60.
• The school turned blood-red as the blood banquet ritual began, and Shen Hao sensed that the hunt was starting.
• Jiang Zhennan confronted Shen Hao, revealed that he had sacrificed him to the Bloodied Sovereign, and vanished without attacking.
• The school's buildings and trees melted together to form a blood-red castle, while Shen Hao recalled Xiaobai and his classmates gathered nearby.
• The castle gates opened, signaling that the most terrifying part of the ritual was about to begin.

Shen Hao and his classmates were compelled to enter the Blood-Red Castle, where they found a banquet hall and realized they might be food for the Bloodied Sovereign. As a figure began to appear in blood mist around the throne, Shen Hao and the terrified students faced the castle’s ruler.

• The classmates panicked at the sight of the Blood-Red Castle, while Shen Hao mocked their fear and refused to save them.
• One by one, the classmates lost control of their bodies and walked toward the castle, leaving Shen Hao alone outside as his spirit attribute steadily fell.
• Shen Hao chose to enter the castle willingly, which stopped his spirit attribute from dropping and caused it to rise again.
• Shen Hao followed the central passage into a banquet hall, where he found his classmates gathered around a dining table and a portrait of the Bloodied Sovereign.
• Shen Hao told the classmates they were likely to be eaten, deepening their terror, as blood mist spread through the hall and a figure appeared by the throne.

Shen Hao confronted the Bloodied Sovereign during the Blood Banquet Ritual, discovering that the monster controlled the castle and had already trapped everyone inside its body. As the Bloodied Sovereign spread through the castle and began devouring the guests, Shen Hao freed himself with the Demon Blade but remained vastly outmatched.

• Shen Hao inflamed the trapped guests’ fear by warning them that the Bloodied Sovereign would eat them, gaining more than five hundred Fear Points.
• The Bloodied Sovereign pulled Shen Hao into the blood mist, where Shen Hao saw the monster and the immense force sealed beyond the gate.
• Shen Hao cut off the Bloodied Sovereign’s arm with the Demon Blade, but the monster struck him out of the mist and then tried to make him cut his own throat.
• Shen Hao possessed a crying girl and attacked the Bloodied Sovereign again, but the monster threw her aside and roared at him for interfering.
• The Bloodied Sovereign spread blood mist through the castle, making its floors and walls consume the guests as Shen Hao realized the castle was part of the monster.
• Shen Hao stabbed the ground with the Demon Blade and freed his legs from the castle, but he realized the blade could not overcome the Bloodied Sovereign’s immense body.

Shen Hao upgraded Immortal Body while trapped inside the Bloodied Sovereign’s living castle, then endured the evil god’s attempt to control and digest him. He replaced his left eye with the Demon Eye, which made the Bloodied Sovereign afraid.

• Shen Hao converted 1,000 Fear Points into Demon Power and raised Immortal Body to level 2.
• The Bloodied Sovereign’s castle transformed into living flesh that tried to digest Shen Hao, and he cut a shrinking refuge with the Demon Blade.
• The Bloodied Sovereign summoned Shen Hao and tentacles restrained him, forcing him to resist as his spirit attribute rapidly fell.
• Shen Hao pulled out his left eye and inserted the Demon Eye from his inventory, which joined with his body.
• The castle stopped writhing, and Shen Hao saw fear on the Bloodied Sovereign’s face as it reacted to the Demon Eye.

Shen Hao used Gaze into Death to kill the Bloodied Sovereign’s manifestation and discovered that Jiang Zhennan’s barrier still trapped the school. He confronted Jiang Zhennan, who summoned giant warriors, and activated his Demon Eye as the fight began.

• Shen Hao used Gaze into Death to snap the Bloodied Sovereign’s death-line, destroying the castle and killing the evil god’s manifestation.
• Shen Hao found the unconscious students alive, collected Fallen Deity’s Blood, and discovered that Jiang Zhennan’s power still prevented him from leaving the school.
• Shen Hao called Jiang Zhennan out and provoked him over his son’s death, prompting Jiang Zhennan to summon enormous armored warriors inside his domain.
• Shen Hao cut Jiang Zhennan in half with the Demon Blade, but Jiang Zhennan reappeared behind him and claimed he could not be killed in his domain.
• Shen Hao activated Gaze into Death, causing Jiang Zhennan to sense danger and fear as the giant warriors attacked.

Shen Hao killed Jiang Zhennan by collapsing his lifeline, then pretended to be unconscious when Xia Bing and an Alliance Guild leader arrived. The newcomers found Jiang Zhennan dead and the students alive, while the leader claimed he had just killed a cultist and asked Shen Hao if he had seen it.

• Jiang Zhennan ordered his giant warriors to attack Shen Hao, but Shen Hao touched the death points on Jiang Zhennan’s lifeline and caused it to collapse.
• Jiang Zhennan’s domain warriors vanished, and Jiang Zhennan died; Shen Hao gained 1,000 Fear Points.
• Shen Hao lay down among his unconscious classmates and pretended not to know what had happened, while the Demon Power in his left eye ran out.
• Xia Bing and a bearded Alliance Guild leader arrived, recognized Jiang Zhennan’s corpse, and confirmed that the students were alive.
• Shen Hao pretended to wake up and denied knowing how Jiang Zhennan died; the leader then asked whether Shen Hao had seen him kill a cultist.

After Jiang Zhennan’s death, Sun Wanli persuaded Shen Hao and Xia Bing to share credit for the kill and devised a cover story for the Alliance Guild. As Sun Wanli arranged for Shen Hao to join Xia Bing’s team and ordered a routine background check, he admitted he did not intend to investigate who had really killed Jiang Zhennan.

• Shen Hao agreed with Sun Wanli that the three of them would claim credit for killing Jiang Zhennan, while Sun Wanli would be named the main contributor.
• Sun Wanli made up a shared account of the fight, and Shen Hao and Xia Bing agreed to repeat it.
• Sun Wanli boasted to the arriving branch guildmasters about Zhongzhou Branch’s achievement, prompting them to leave in frustration.
• Xia Bing told Sun Wanli she had arranged for the unconscious students to be taken to the hospital.
• After driving Shen Hao home, Sun Wanli told Xia Bing to check Shen Hao’s background and said he would transfer him to her team for development.

Shen Hao improved Possession and upgraded Xiaobai before receiving his Alliance Guild rewards and rising to B-rank. He was then matched with the S-rank Qingshui Village dungeon, where he suspected he would play the Headless Knight.

• Shen Hao spent Demon Power to raise Possession to level 2 and upgrade Xiaobai, whose new aura gradually weakened nearby enemies' spirits and made them easier to frighten.
• Shen Hao received 3 million yuan from Jiang Zhennan's bounty and was promoted to B-rank in the Alliance Guild.
• Sun Wanli transferred Shen Hao to the Field Operations Department and placed him on Xia Bing's team, despite Shen Hao's protest.
• Shen Hao received notice that he would enter the S-rank Qingshui Village dungeon in 24 hours and searched the Alliance Guild's internal website for a guide.
• Shen Hao read that a Headless Knight had roamed Qingshui Village at night, beheading anyone who saw him, and suspected he would take that role.

Shen Hao bought and studied all eight incomplete guides to clearing Qingshui Village, learning the Headless Knight’s weaknesses and how to obtain the tools needed to defeat him. Though the guides suggested the dungeon was now conquerable, Shen Hao believed his arrival as a Demon would change everything.

• Shen Hao learned that viewing the guides was expensive, then spent 970,000 yuan to buy all eight.
• The first two guides warned that the villagers worshipped the goddess fanatically, the statue could erode players’ spirit, and provoking the villagers could be deadly.
• The third and fourth guides revealed that the Headless Knight emerged beneath a dead tree at dusk and could be suppressed with holy water from beneath the goddess statue.
• The fifth and sixth guides reported that the Headless Knight revived after death and had once served the Lord of the Netherworld, who was overthrown by the gods.
• The seventh and eighth guides identified the Rusty Bloodstained Greatsword as the weapon that beheaded the Headless Knight and explained that the Bloodstained Holy Grail fueled his power.
• Shen Hao concluded that the dungeon could likely be cleared with the discoveries in the guides, but expected his presence to change the outcome.

Shen Hao entered the Netherworld instance as the Headless Knight, a Demon tasked with hunting players and guarding the Bloodstained Holy Grail. After destroying the Grail and discovering his formidable abilities, he rode out during the day to surprise the arriving players and harvest Fear Points.

• Shen Hao learned that the Netherworld was ruled by gods afflicted by the dead Lord of the Netherworld’s resentment, and realized players and gods would target him if they discovered he was a Demon.
• Shen Hao entered the instance beside the Undead Tree and took the form of the Headless Knight, once a servant of the Lord of the Netherworld.
• Shen Hao found the Bloodstained Holy Grail, put it in his inventory, and crushed it so players could not complete their quest.
• Shen Hao gained the Headless Knight’s Soulfire, Mental Perception, and Undying Will, and discovered that the instance boss’s power was weakened during the day.
• Shen Hao emerged from the Undead Tree, mounted his flaming warhorse, and rode out to ambush the arriving players and collect Fear Points.